dotfiles

My very own special flavor of unix!

To install it's as simple as:

source bootstrap

Although I would just recommend rummaging around in my dotfiles and incorporating any snippets you find back into your own.

After running bootstrap I generally run ./.osx to install or update anything. The .osx script ends up calling .brew and all of the .pkg* executable files.

Special Directories

unused

Any files that I'm not currently using are placed in this directory. It is not symlinked into the home directory.

root

Files that belong at the root of the OS. These files are few and far in-between. These files are not symlinked into the home directory but are instead symlinked into '/'. When running the bootstrap script you are warned and asked if you would like to continue before symlinking to '/' occurs.

private

A private git sub-repository. I use this to store my more sensitive files like my email setup and some SSH settings.

nolink

Contains files that will not be symlinked to the home directory. Useful for utility scripts.

Inspirations

The configuration used in my dotfiles repo is a balance between Zach Holman's and Mathias Bynen's dotfiles with more of the bootstrapping code stolen from Zach.

See some great examples of dotfiles are listed http://dotfiles.github.io/ .